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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Schroeder, Elmer K Dr.
Dr. E.K. Schroeder, 85,
died Monday, Oct. 13, 2003,
in Wichita.
His funeral service will
be at 10:30 a.m., Thursday,
Oct. 16, 2003, at the
Eastmoor United
Methodist Church. Burial
will be at the Marion
Cemetery.
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Oct 16,2003
Dr. Elmer K. Schroeder,
85, died Oct. 13, 2003, at
Wichita.
Dr. Elmer K. Schroeder,
the son of John and Susie
Klassen Schroeder, was
born May 19, 1918, on a
farm in Lehigh. He was one
of eight children. He graduated from High School in
Hillsboro and attended
Tabor College. While in college he worked for REA.
In 1940 he attend the
College of Dentistry at the
University of Missouri
where he graduated in
1944. He married Ruby
Richert during his senior
year of college.
After serving in the
Army as a dentist in WWII,
he and Ruby settled in
Marion in 1946, to begin
his dental practice. He
retired from his dental
practice in 1987.
Dr. Schroeder served for
ten years on the Marion
School Board of Education,
was a member of the
Marion Chamber of
Commerce, the Kiwanis
Club, was on the St. Luke
Hospital Board's physician
procurement committee,,
the Marion County
Museum Board, the
Marion County Historical
Society, the Board of
Prairie View, the Mental
Health Center Board and
the Alliance for the
Mentally Ill.
He is survived by his
wife; two sons, Dennis and
Edsel, all of Marion; and a
sister, Rachel Gregory of
Wichita. He was preceded
in death by his parents, two
brothers and four sisters.
The funeral service was
Oct. 16, 2003, at the
Eastmoor United
Methodist Church in
Marion. Officiating were
Rev. John Goering, Rev.
Rick Branson and Rev.
Robert; Priest. Interment
was in Marion Cemetery,
Marion.
Memorials are suggest-
ed to the Eastmoor United
Methodist Church.
Chase County Leader-News. Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Oct 23, 2003.
by Lorna Marvin
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